Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Had VERY Strong Emotions About

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books I Had VERY Strong Emotions About.

Some of my favorite books are the ones that make me FEEL… good, bad, happy, sad, but never indifferent! (Okay, a certain book that made me mad isn’t actually a favorite — but it absolutely gave me some very strong feelings… of anger.)

Here are my top ten:

  1. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery: Joy, delight, feelings of being totally charmed.
  2. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt: A sense of wonder and connection.
  3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling: Sorrow… you know why.
  4. Anxious People by Fredrik Backman: Such a mix of emotions! Entertainment, but really getting to experience all the ups and downs of all the various characters.
  5. The Guncle by Steven Rowley: Heart-warming happiness, but with threads of sympathetic sadness too.
  6. The Extraordinaries by T. J. Klune: Hilarity… but also intense embarassment over the characters’ most cringe behavior (which is still intensely funny)
  7. Hunter’s Moon by Dana Stabenow: Grief, no other way to put it.
  8. Outlander by Diana Gabaldon: Is “swoon” an emotion? Okay, love and sadness and fear and delight, over and over and over.
  9. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer: This is the book that made me so angry that I wanted to throw it across the room. There’s a certain point where I was just NOPE.
  10. A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness: Grief and sympathy.
Who knew there were so many emotion scale memes out there???

What books made you feel all the feelings?

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books That Made Me Cry

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Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Top Ten Books That Will Make You Cry.

Here are the books that caused the biggest waterworks for me in recent years:

1) The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
(I feel pretty confident in predicting that this book will be at the top of every single list this week:)

The Fault in Our Stars

2) Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein

Code Name Verity

3) Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

Eleanor & Park

4) A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

A Monster Calls

5) Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Before I Die

6) Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick

Wonderstruck

7) Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)

8) The Pact by Jodi Picoult

The Pact: A Love Story

9) Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson

Somewhere In Time

10) The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The Time Traveler's Wife

Plus a few that I couldn’t squeeze into my top ten, but really do belong on a list of tear-soaked books:

Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
Cloud Nine by Luanne Rice
… and pretty much any teen tragedy by Lurlene McDaniel

Three of my top ten have to do with time travel — what does that say about me? I swear, I never (well, almost never) cry during Doctor Who episodes!

Have you cried over any of the books on my list? What books leave you in tears?

Now that we’ve talked about all the sad, I wish you all a day filled with rainbows and kitties. And lots of hugs.

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